Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 16th Dec 2006 16:56 UTC, submitted by Governa
eWeek's Peter Coffee has compiled his idea of the 25 killer applications of all time. "Microsoft's Vista has widely inspired the 'Why do I need that?' question, which past 'killer applications' have answered in different ways for different platforms during three decades of personal computing."
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Member since:2006-04-21
XENIX isn't FOSS. It's proprietary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
And All-Powerful Oz (sorry, Microsoft) soon left it out in the cold.
Edited 2006-12-16 18:52
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2006-06-01
It's revolutionary in that it's the first implementation of Linux or any FOSS software to gain as much traction.
Xenix.
"Xenix was Microsoft's version of Unix intended for use on microcomputers; since Microsoft was not able to license the "UNIX" name itself, they gave it an original name. The -ix ending follows a convention used by many other Unix-like operating systems.
Microsoft purchased a license for Version 7 Unix from AT&T in 1979, and announced on August 25, 1980 that it would make it available for the 16-bit microcomputer market.
Xenix varied from its 7th Edition origins by incorporating elements from BSD, and soon possessed the most widely installed base of any Unix flavour due to the popularity of the inexpensive x86 processor"